Starting the week of November 20, PPS will generate and release Version 05B of the GPM IMERG Final products. The Version 05A GPM IMERG Final products with data dates between March and October 2014 products are valid HDF5 science products. However, these products yield errors when opened with NetCDF4 utilities and library. To satisfy the requirements of the NetCDF4 users, PPS will release Version 05B GPM IMERG Final products starting next week. All the contents, data format, data server address and documents are unchanged. If you are a HDF5 user, you can keep using these Version 05A products or

The GPM core observatory satellite provided information about rainfall associated with the remnants of tropical storm Haikui on November 2017 at 0929 UTC. Earlier this month, typhoon Damrey caused widespread destruction when it hit Vienam on November 4, 2017. Fortunately tropical storm Haikui dissipated over the South China Sea before it reached Vietnam. Rainfall data collected by GPM's Microwave Imager (GMI) and Dual Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) instruments revealed that some storms with tropical storm Haikui's remnants contained light to moderate precipitation. A small cluster of

Starting on Monday November 13, 2017, PPS will generate Version 05 GPM IMERG Final products. The V05 IMERG Final products will be available both in STORM: https://storm.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/storm/ and on "arthurhou": ftp://arthurhou.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/ NASA requires that science users register at: https://registration.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/registration/ to access PPS data services. PPS will reprocess the V05 IMERG Final products back to data date March 12, 2014. All users are encouraged to retrieve the V05 IMERG Final products to ensure that they use the most recent products. The V04 IMERG